Author · Belgium
Émile Verhaeren
Died in 1916
Émile Verhaeren was born at Saint-Amand, on the banks of the Scheldt, on 21 May 1855, into a well-off French-speaking family. A pupil of the Jesuits in Ghent, he studied law at Louvain, then gave up the bar for letters. An art critic in the avant-garde reviews, he defended James Ensor. In 1891 he married the painter Marthe Massin, settled in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, and travelled across Europe giving lectures. A refugee in England in 1914, he died in Rouen on 27 November 1916.
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- PoetryLes Villes tentaculairesÉmile Verhaeren · 1895not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain